What makes conservation “collaborative”?

One of the chief benefits of embracing free market environmentalism is that it will ensure conservation is more collaborative. Where … More

Bureaucratic overhead: what share of species’ funding should go to red tape?

This week, more than 200 organizations signed on to a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations … More

Another downside to pervasive permitting: what happens when the government shuts down?

One of the lessons of the recent government shutdown (and expected near miss on a second one) is that there … More

Conservation through compromise or conflict: lessons from California’s Tejon Ranch

High Country News reports on a simmering conflict over the development of California’s Tejon Ranch, an area of the Sierra … More

Are invasive species a menace or a blessing? It depends.

Around the world, many ecosystems have been altered by “invasive species”—nonnative species that migrated or were transported to a new … More

How do we decide what environmental goals to fund?

If $10 million magically appeared and you got to decide how to allocate it between several environmental goals, how would … More

To encourage more species recovery, we need to acknowledge and reward successes

Last month, a federal court ordered the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem population of grizzly bears put back on the endangered species … More

What are “reasonable efforts” to restore habitat? Supreme Court argument highlights the importance of who pays to recover endangered species

On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in Weyerhaeuser Co. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, … More

Transaction costs matter

Will Harris, a free-range chicken farmer in Georgia, recently learned first hand the importance of transaction costs. In the last … More

Property owners for regulation?

With endangered species reform getting some much deserved attention, it is a happy coincidence that the Supreme Court will soon … More